Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:01:28 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <5d237ee6-b5cf-4dc0-81a4-32177471183b@googlegroups.com> <53b978b3$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53c09d91$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="17558"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Mbn1Sjl6qyzPpqvkx3nVt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <53c09d91$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:8dtOd2kHu59cFRsst2jlpPMJ5gY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29066 On 7/11/2014 10:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 7/11/2014 10:00 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> "Nasser M. Abbasi" writes: >>> But AWT and SWing are also dead. JavaFX is the new thing. >> >> This week I look up a freelancer project site in Germany: >> >> 12 Swing projects, 1 JavaFX project. > > It is not that long time since Java 8 came out. ... and only seven years since JavaFX was announced, six since it was made available to developers, five and a half since its first general release. JavaFX is roughly the same age as Windows Vista -- let us drink to their bright future! > But eventually JavaFX will replace Swing. They're already working on the FlyingPig framework. (Anyone unsure of his grasp of English-language irony should consult .) -- Eric Sosman esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid